Ukraine's youth national team will play its next matches in the Euro 2025 (U-21) qualifying tournament against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan. The head coach of the blue and yellows, Unai Melgosa, has called 24 players to the team's location to prepare for these matches.
Unai Melgosa. Photo: uaf.uaUkraine's youth national team (players born in 2002 and younger), led by Spaniard Unai Melgosa, started the current European Championship qualifying cycle with three consecutive victories, including a3-2 win over the current European champions, the English, in October.
The next, nominally home matches of the Ukrainian youth team, against Luxembourg and Azerbaijan, will take place at the Nueva Condominium Stadium in Murcia, Spain.
The game with the Luxembourg U-21 team will take place on 17 November, and the meeting with the Azerbaijan U-21 team - on 21 November. Both matches start at 20:00 Kyiv time.
The composition of the youth national team of Ukraine
Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Kirill Fesyun (Kolos Kovalivka), Yakov Kinareikin (Dnipro-1 Dnipro).
Defenders: Arsenii Batahov (Zorya Luhansk), Volodymyr Saliuk (Chornomorets Odesa), Roman Didyk, Vitalii Roman (both Rukh Lviv), Eduard Kozik (Shakhtar Donetsk), Kostiantyn Vivcharenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Artem Smolyakov (Polissia Zhytomyr), Danil Skorko (Oleksandriia).
Midfielders: Volodymyr Brazhko, Nazar Voloshyn (both - Dynamo Kyiv), Ivan Varfolomeyev (Slovan, Czech Republic), Oleksandr Yatsyk (Zorya Luhansk), Oleh Ocheretko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Valentyn Rubchynskyi (Dnipro-1 Dnipro), Maksym Kucheriavyi (St Johnstone, Scotland), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets Odesa), Ilya Kvasnytsia (Rukh Lviv).
Forwards: Bohdan Viunnyk (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo Kyiv), Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon Kyiv).
